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Cam Lộ Combat Base; Camp Davies (Vietnam) Camp Eagle (Vietnam) Camp Enari; Camp Evans (Vietnam) Camp Holloway; Camp Horn; Camp Radcliff; Catecka Base Camp; Charlie 2; Chi Lăng Training Center; Chí Linh Camp; Chơn Thành Camp; Chu Lai Base Area; Củ Chi Base Camp; Cửa Việt Base
The Mobile Advisory Teams advisor school operated at the base from 1969 until September 1971. [4] On 30 July 1969, US President Richard Nixon visited the base on his only Presidential visit to South Vietnam, meeting US military personnel. [5] On 13 October 1971 Vietcong sappers destroyed two U.S. helicopters at the camp. [6]
The base was established in late 1966 by the 5th Special Forces Detachment AB-31.The camp was located in Xuân Lộc and 28 km north of Nui Dat. [1]On 18 May 1969 at 01:00 the 7th Battalion, 9th Artillery Regiment and the 2nd Battalion, 35th Artillery Regiment, 54th Artillery Group at the base were attacked by elements of the Viet Cong (VC) 5th Division.
Due to lack of available dry land, the base was created by dredging from the river. [3] Dredging work to create the base commenced in August 1966 and involved the reclamation of 600 acres of swampland. [2] The Vietcong attempted to sabotage the base construction sinking the dredgeship Jamaica Bay on 9 January 1967 with the loss of 3 crewmembers.
The base was originally established in April 1965 as a 5th Special Forces Detachment B-34 base and was located approximately 2 km southwest of Phước Bình in Phước Long Province. [1]: 77 The Battle of Song Be was fought around the base in May 1965.
It was later the base camp for the 9th Infantry Division from January 1967 until the division moved to Đồng Tâm Base Camp near Mỹ Tho in late 1967. The camp was located on Route 15, 16 km southeast of Biên Hòa. [1] The camp took its name from its Special Forces radio call sign. [2] [3] Other U.S. units stationed at Bearcat included:
On 24 June 1967 a Vietcong (VC) mortar attack on Camp Rainier disabled 29 UH-1 helicopters of the 188th Assault Helicopter Company. [4] On 4 July 1968 the base was subjected to a heavy People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) rocket and mortar attack followed by probes on the base perimeter resulting in 5 U.S. and 16 PAVN killed.
A further attack was launched on 9 August with limited gains and attacks on the base continued for the next 2 weeks eventually gaining one third of the base. [4]: 198 The ARVN finally attacked the PAVN/VC occupied bunkers with TOW missiles and M-202 rockets and this broke the PAVN/VC defense forcing the remaining defenders to flee the base.